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More Ways to Avoid the Second System Effect

Dare Obasanjo had an interesting post yesterday on the Second System Effect in software development. For those who are unaware, the second system effect is a term first coined by Frederick Brooks in The Mythical Man Month . It deals with (in general) Read More...

The Cost of Migrating from VB6

Recently, a question regarding the cost associated with migrating from VB6 to VB.NET was asked by one of our clients. Since that is a question whose answer has a broader appeal than just to the asker, I thought I would replicate my response here. It should Read More...

Sending Mail through SMTP with Authentication

If you have looked at the process of sending emails from within .NET, odds are pretty good that you have stumbled across the SmtpServer class. To send email, you create a MailMessage object, assign the necessary properties and then use the Send method Read More...

Cookieless Sessions and Security

In a previous blog , I pointed out that Microsoft had created an HttpModule that mitigated the ASP.NET cannonicalization issue that was first described a couple of weeks ago. In one of the comments, Amir asked about the security issues surrounding the Read More...

IIS 6.0 Isolation Mode and ASP.NET worker process identity

A client ran into an intriguing problem the other day. The application under development has a number of web services the get deployed onto one server or another as different versions are released for client testing. Underneath the services, LDAP is used Read More...

Getting the App Config Path

Need to path to your app.config file? This blog entry describes how to get it. Read More...

Modifying a cell in a DataSet

Modifying a element in a DataRow through ItemArray may seem like a natural thing to do. But its not. This entry describes the reason for this situation and the correct way to accomplish the desired functionality. Read More...